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YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of Paypal. Hurley studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, while Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. According to a story, Chad Hurley and Steve Chen developed the idea for YouTube during the early months of 2005, after they had experienced difficulty sharing videos that had been shot at a dinner party at Chen's apartment in San Francisco.

• 1. YouTube is a video sharing website where users can upload, view and share video clips. Three former PayPal employees created YouTube in February 2005.
• 2. In November 2006, YouTube, LLC was bought by Google Inc. for US$1.65 billion, and is now operated as a subsidiary of Google.

• 3. According to comScore, almost 70% of the online population has watched online video and the average consumer watches 73 minutes of online video a month.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube)


According to May, 2006 data from Hitwise the top five video sites are:

• YouTube: 42.94%
• MySpace Video: 24.22%
• Yahoo! Video Search: 9.58%
• MSN Video Search: 9.21%
• Google Video: 6.48%
• (http://www.searchenginejournal.com/youtube-video-usage-facts/3754/)

• YouTube was the number one video site on the Internet as of January - with 67.5 million unique users in the U.S.
• 6th largest Internet destination overall.
• People watch hundreds of millions of videos a day.
• Every minute, 10 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube.
  (http://www.emw.net.au/blog/marketing/social-media/interesting-youtube-usage-facts/)

• On June 19, 2007, Google CEO Eric E. Schmidt was in Paris to launch the new localization system. The entire interface of the website is now available with localized versions in 22 countries:
• Australia
• Brazil
• Canada
• Czech Republic
• France
• Germany
• Hong Kong
• Israel
• India
• Ireland
• Italy
• Japan
• South Korea
• Mexico
• Netherlands
• New Zealand
• Poland
• Russia
• Spain
• Sweeden
• Republic of China (Taiwan)
• United Kingdom

Article about YouTube:
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/story.aspx?guid=%7B29399E0D-DBFD-4DA3-BB53-1E09BAD7F66B%7D

Link to video on how to make a youtube video:
http://www.answers.com/topic/youtube